The book “Islam is of the Devil” was written by fundamentalist Christian zealot Terry Jones

Terry Jones, zealot pastor of a Florida church called the Dove World Outreach Center of Gainesville and author of “Islam is of the Devil” claims to be motivated and inspired by God as he toys with the world’s leaders, media and lives of American soldiers and civilians.

Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Pope Benedict, Hillary Clinton, NATO, Interpol, every country in the European Union, every religious group in Gainesville, Florida and perhaps the entire civilized world has implored and pleaded with the zealot so-called pastor Terry Jones to cease and desist from burning Korans on September 11, 2010. The foreign ministries of Pakistan and Bahrain issued official denunciations with Bahrain calling it a “shameful act which is incompatible with the principles of tolerance and coexistence.” The president of Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, has also sent a letter to President Obama asking him to stop the bonfire. In Pakistan, about 200 lawyers and civil society members marched and burned a U.S. flag in the central Pakistani city of Multan, demanding that Washington halt the burning of the Muslim holy book.

Jones’ answer? He feigns religious persecution. He says his bank wants his church to pay what it is owed. He also says he has 200 Korans and he wants buy more to burn. There is no subtext or code for what this pastor wants. He wants you to send him and his 50 followers money and lots of it. Yes, please send money by joining as a “member” of the church. He also needs money because Florida authorities discovered that he was running a for-profit eBay enterprise and the state wants to get paid for sales taxes.

The most recent tax filing available on Jones’ non-profit church from Guidestar (his church is listed as Dove Charismatic Ministries, Inc) shows his church spends 30.5% on “program services” while “administrative costs” accounted for 69.5 percent. His 20 acre church property is for sale. Online real estate listings indicate Jones is looking for other ways to drum up some cash. According to the listing on real estate website AllisonAbles.com, the Dove World Church is for sale for 2.9 million. The listing says the property has been “reduced $1.1 million for a quick sale”.

I strongly suspect the bottom line for Jones is he is broke and he needs to come up with cash very quickly or lose his church. He admits in a deposition that his congregation has decreased in recent years, telling attorneys that he currently has a congregation of about 50 people – whereas he had 100 people when his congregation was at its largest. Some current estimates place the number of members at 30 persons which is hardly enough to support any church.

God has no part of Jones’ plan. Jones’ plan is the Terry Jones plan and it was the reason why his old church in Cologne Germany fired him. His motive is as earthly, worldly and as old as humanity itself – craven ego, greed and avarice. Terry Jones has figured out the magic formula to get every self loathing zealot nut job in the world to send him money — Get on every TV, radio, newspaper and web site and plead for like minded idiots to send money. There is no doubt that several hundreds perhaps thousands of new “members” have sent in their tithes to pastor fake doctor of theology. So far over 900 fans and potential donors have joined Jones’ book fan club and virtual church on Facebook. Jones’ International Burn a Koran Day on Facebook has a staggering 15,000 fans. I wonder why Jones’ Facebook and YouTube sites have not been shut down because all of them violate the sites’ terms of use prohibiting hate speech.

The First Amendment of the US Constitution protects Jones’ right to say and do what he wants. He can call himself “Doctor Jones” and says in a court deposition he was awarded an honorary doctorate of theology degree from the California Graduate School of Theology in Rosemead, CA in 1983. The school, which is unaccredited, cannot confirm whether or not it awarded Jones the degree.

Jones has the right to burn Korans even in the face of Gen. David Petraeus’s dire warnings. To emphasize his intention to burn Korans, Jones wrote a screed on his blog. It must be noted that his ISP Rackspace has closed the account for both his church and book’s web site for violations of terms of use.

A VICIOUS CIRCLE JERK OF ZEALOTRY THAT WILL KILL OUR TROOPS

In Afghanistan, there will be a young American soldier who will find himself in a jihadist’s rifle’s cross hairs or blown up by young depraved suicide bomber Islamists who will find their final motive and inspiration in Terry Jones’ film of burning Islam’s most sacred texts. Jones will provide the match, fuse and detonator to several Islamists’ seething anger towards American soldiers.

Terry Jones already has created a zealot Islamist counterpart in Afghanistan – Maulawi Habibullah Hassam. Hassam was just a tiny unknown gnat in Afghanistan’s crowded parliamentary election that has 600 candidates. Now Jones has given him the sales pitch he needed to become the most recognized and high profile candidate for a seat in Afghanistan’s parliament.

Time Magazine reports:

Jones is not the only one gaining notoriety from the controversy. The man who orchestrated the anti-America rally in the Afghan capital is a young Muslim cleric who is running for a seat in parliament: Maulawi Habibullah Hassam. Competing in a packed field of 600-plus candidates, Hassam is hoping that his hostile posture toward infidels in general, and the U.S. in particular, will raise his profile high enough to propel him into office. “Those were all my supporters, and they were just a few from Kabul,” boasts Hassam, referring to the demonstrators. “If I want them to, people from all over Afghanistan will step forward for more protests against America.”

Leaflets are being distributed in Afghanistan taking advantage of the just the news of Terry Jones planned Koran burning. It is likely that as soon as Terry Jones starts to burn Korans on September 11, there massive upheaval and mayhem in all parts of the Muslim world from Afghanistan, Pakistan to Somalia and Iraq. Americans both civilian and military will be in danger. PARTIAL TRANSLATION: A church in the State of Florida in US on Sep 11th from 6am to 9pm will hold a ceremony called “International day of Burning Quran.” You, the Muslim who loves your faith and prays for one God! You, whom have been given the Holy Quran which has saved you from sinking into a sea of despair and a life filled with problems! You, that defends rights, religion and Quran! You, who conduct the real struggle against enemies of our religion! …This time these people have decided, once again, to insult our religion, our Quran, and our holy sites. Therefore, you, the devoted Muslim, don’t keep quiet! Don’t suppress your voice in your throat for your religion is in danger and the day has arrived that Islam wants us to become united! We must raise our voices, fight together, and strike a hard blow to the mouth of stinking pigs to knock them down! … Let others know, before it becomes too late, to spread this message. Let them know we must hurry, because we have a short time to act and time is running out. Only God knows if there will be another such an opportunity to defend our religion and Quran. Therefore don’t waste this golden opportunity because it may save us from the fire of hell which is much hotter than the fire in this world.

Terry Jones’ Koran burning is the burden and beauty of America. It is what makes us who we are. Anyone is free to be a fan of the Klu Klux Klan and be a violence and war monger. Free speech also applies to the fake doctor of theology and money grubbing Terry Jones.

Free speech however does not grant anyone judgment, reason, morality nor wisdom. In fact, wisdom is not inherent in free speech. More often than not, wisdom and reason are casualties and collateral damages of free speech.

Jones’ crass pandering to make money spares no opportunity even selling coffee mugs of hate

To increase donations, zealots come up with all sorts of gimmickry to raise money like creating a boogey man, stage faith healing shows and in the case of Terry Jones – generate anger among fellow zealots and sell “memberships” and ask for their support and contributions and on the way also sell feeble minded people a book, tshirt and even a coffee mug.

I have no doubt that donations to Terry Jones’ racist and hate filled church has skyrocketed and he will milk his concocted money making controversy for every cent he can make. It is the definition of blood money except it may be the blood of a young American soldier.

An opinion piece from the Christian Science Monitor puts Terry Jones and his Quran burning circus in perspective:

…The fundamental nature of religion and its place in the national psyche of any country makes it impossible to control the cascading effects – Christians will burn Muslim Korans today, Muslims will burn their churches down tomorrow – then, before we know it, America’s terrorism problem will become a mostly homegrown affair, exactly as Al Qaeda leaders planned it nearly two decades ago. Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda’s No. 2, often schemed of destroying America from within, first financially, then politically, and finally religiously. Events in Florida planned for this weekend show just how prescient this terror master was.

As Muslims must police their own fanatics from within – however miserably we have failed to do so thus far – so must America’s Christians purge their own ranks of a type of fanaticism that has every possibility of turning into a death spiral for America’s pluralist identity. Stop burning books and start building bridges.

How many coins of silver does Terry Jones need to stop his Koran burning? I suspect it is as much as people are willing to send to his demented Christian church. Thirty pieces of silver was enough for Judas to betray Jesus Christ. I strongly suspect that for Terry Jones, it’s, “Gimme all you got.”

When a young Taliban Islamist dedicates his IED or suicide belt to Terry Jones and kills American soldiers, I suspect Jones will just continue to sell “memberships” and coffee mugs.